Computational fluid dynamics research at the United Technologies Research Center requiring supercomputers
- Author:
- Landgrebe, Anton J.
- Published:
- Mar 1, 1987.
- Physical Description:
- 1 electronic document
- Access Online:
- hdl.handle.net
- Restrictions on Access:
- Unclassified, Unlimited, Publicly available.
- Summary:
- An overview of research activities at the United Technologies Research Center (UTRC) in the area of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is presented. The requirement and use of various levels of computers, including supercomputers, for the CFD activities is described. Examples of CFD directed toward applications to helicopters, turbomachinery, heat exchangers, and the National Aerospace Plane are included. Helicopter rotor codes for the prediction of rotor and fuselage flow fields and airloads were developed with emphasis on rotor wake modeling. Airflow and airload predictions and comparisons with experimental data are presented. Examples are presented of recent parabolized Navier-Stokes and full Navier-Stokes solutions for hypersonic shock-wave/boundary layer interaction, and hydrogen/air supersonic combustion. In addition, other examples of CFD efforts in turbomachinery Navier-Stokes methodology and separated flow modeling are presented. A brief discussion of the 3-tier scientific computing environment is also presented, in which the researcher has access to workstations, mid-size computers, and supercomputers.
- Collection:
- NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.
- Note:
- Document ID: 19870016578.
Accession ID: 87N26011.
NASA. Ames Research Center, Supercomputing in Aerospace; p 159-174. - Terms of Use and Reproduction:
- No Copyright.
- Access Online:
- hdl.handle.net
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